Well, I get a lot of ribbing about never getting out to things, so I decided to make a personal appearance at the Broward County School Board’s news conference at Stranahan High School marking the first day of school (today). After walking a few miles around the school and then…
The Broward Sheriff’s Office has a rather weird streak for ridiculing its criminal suspects in advance of apprehending them. Like in this release from a few minutes ago:A casually dressed man who looked like he should have been watching golf from his recliner instead robbed a Citibank Saturday afternoon, and…
The former Miss California appeared at a Republican conference in Orlando Saturday and so I checked the Florida Republican Party website in hopes of learning when Carrie “Preechin'” Prejean might be scheduled to make a stop in our part of the peninsula. Of course, I couldn’t find it, and the…
Sometimes it’s hard to feel sorry for the Miami Heat’s Michael Beasley. God-given basketball gifts, big NBA contract, supersized ego… you know. But now he’s getting hit for something in the background of a picture he posted on Twitter. Here’s the image: OK, you see that in the lower right…
So freelancer Jack Furnari publishes on a Sun-Sentinel blog that the Boca Raton News has been shut down and that all the employees were told they were “no longer employed.” Then the Sun-Sentinel does a short story with no byline on it and writes that the newspaper is going online…
Despite its august name, the Harvard Learning Centers in Boca Raton was not exactly the Ivy League. Nor was the criminal conspiracy for which its president, Donald Patten was convicted Friday. It seems Patten issued stock from that company, then used the proceeds to pay back “debts” to people very…
Those are highlights from Saturday’s match between two women who aren’t natives of Palm Beach County but who both now live there part time. Elena Dementieva, who has a home in Boca Raton, beat Serena Williams, of Palm Beach Gardens, in straight sets, advancing to the finals, where yesterday Dementieva…
That’s a crash from yesterday’s Championship Cup motorcycle race at the Palm Beach International Speedway in Jupiter, but I don’t think it’s the same one that caused two people to be hospitalized. The names of those two injured have not been released. The ride in the video above was racing…
It’s Monday, and this week you can concentrate on your own “tropical depression.”Especially if you’re a South Florida student, where according to the Miami Herald’s Patricia Mazzei, you can look forward to a “no frills” school year, due to budget cuts at school districts. Not in Broward, though, where according…
My God, it’s true: The Broward County School Board has squandered millions of dollars on seemingly everything it has touched. It took our property tax dollars and threw them way on unnecessary and ridiculously expensive schools. The waste is everywhere you look. I told you about the $25 million drained…
After amendments to the contract, the company has increased its fee by a whopping $250,000 – more than 50 percent of the original contract.
But that’s nothing compared to the construction change orders the board authorized to Padula. That low bid didn’t seem to mean much once the company won the job. So far, Padula has asked for and received extra fees that total more than $2 million.
No hurricanes hit Florida but we had a blizzard of activity here at Juice. Local health care forums have been battle royals. We showed you video of the magic loogie that flew outside a town hall in Stuart. At Delray Beach, we listened patiently to the arguments of health care…
The feature story I wrote this week about zoophiles has attracted some controversy, here and in our sister paper, the Miami New Times. That’s not surprising — it’s a touchy subject. I didn’t have time to respond to all the comments and emails, but I did want to share a…
Sam Goren, the attorney hired in May by the North Broward Hospital District to fill the general counsel’s role, is racking up legal bills at a rate more than double the combined salaries of the two attorneys whose firings created that opening.Billings provided to Juice in response to a Florida…
Frederick Sancilio had to sweat a little more than he might have expected, but last night the founder of a failed biotech in North Carolina managed to get the $350,000 loan he wanted from Palm Beach Gardens. The South Florida Business Journal reports that the city council voted 3-2 in…
When even criminals value frugality, you know the economy has truly hit bottom. Lauderdale friends Timothy Seamore and Sebrina Smith allegedly went on a shopping spree in Palm Beach County yesterday, passing forged checks and using stolen credit cards. But the couple’s retail choices were so thrifty, they might have…
It wasn’t exactly Watergate, but for Deerfield Beach, it had the makings of a defining moment in its scandal-plagued history: firefighters accused by residents of engaging in improper political activities during the final, frenzied week of the city’s municipal elections in March. With a new mayor and two new commissioners,…
Aaron Jackson, founder of Planting Peace — a locally based nonprofit running orphanages in Haiti and shelters around the world — says he does not “kill children.” That’s right, not even one. I’ve hung out with the man on several occasions, for extended periods of time, and as far as…
At a staff meeting today, Boca Raton News Publisher informed the newspaper’s staff of 24 people that the 54-year-old newspaper was being shut down immediately. Sunday’s newspaper will be its last. The news was first reported by freelance writer and Boca Raton News columnist Jack Furnari on a Sun-Sentinel blog after…
Broward County Library staff is bracing for a round of layoffs next month, and in the meantime anxiety and suspicion is spreading through the ranks. Who among them deserves to be spared? And who deserves to go?One Broward County Library worker told Juice of a recent conversation she had with…
In the same week that the New York Times named FWM Laboratories of Hollywood among nutrition supplement firms that ran misleading internet ads, daytime talk show host Oprah Winfrey named the company as lead defendant in a suit she filed against some 500 websites. The New York Post reports that…
